Opening energy blocks with Kundalini yoga
In the first weeks of moving to Kiev and getting my own flat (I know so British of me;)) I signed up for an unlimited six month yoga pass. This was partially due to the emotional stress I was experiencing due to a shower issue at my apartment.
I also really loved the photos of the studio online. Although at the time I only wanted to do hot yoga - I was obsessed with Bikram yoga that I got introduced to in Toronto - I decided on this particular studio, with a variety of yoga styles instead. The decour, the proximity in walking distance to home, and as it later turned out, an amazing Kundalini teacher were deciding factors.
The Kundalini yoga practitioner at this studio impressed me from the first lesson. She was dynamic, energetic, strong, as skinny and lean as a yoga teacher should be, and she taught a very feminine type of yoga. Ever since deciding that my blogs and vlogs would be ‘pour des femmes’ with an uber feminine feel, I’ve been falling deeper and deeper in love with the topic.
The more I live the more I realize that everything I love or hate is ultimately for me.
‘Feminism’ was always a topic I disliked. I thought it was overly contrived and because of my upbringing and a strong mother figure I didn’t notice just how much women all around the world suffered simply due to the fact that they are women.
And while kundalini yoga does not discriminate via gender, it is considered especially beneficial for us females.
After every lesson I have, I feel fulfilled, more energetic, and as though I have studied months worth of holy text.
My initial decision was a little rash (but suppose it wouldn’t be like me - if it wasn’t). And I did have moments of regret and re-analysis. But, ultimately I would not have had these mind altering experiences, if it wasn’t for that decision.
Her classes are once a week (with a second day added only recently), so I haven’t had too many kundalini practice hours, but each one has been wonderful.
With different sets of exercises we work on different systems in the organism. Kundalini yoga is about working with your energy, although exercises also help the physical body.
You can rid yourself of a lot of toxins with pranayama (breathing exercises) by salivating (losing your inhibitions is also part of the package).
Although I don’t think I have too many inhibitions, today I’ve realized that there are a couple left.
While bending over with a flat back on all fours and my tongue stuck out as far as it would go, breathing as hard as possible through the mouth and attempting to detox by salivating, it came to me that the only reason I forgot to be self-conscious was because I was in my yogic element.
Normally, I’m afraid to look or sound un-pretty.
That’s probably the only one complex left. It took years to slowly shed them. Speaking in front of a camera or hearing an insult coming my way used to seem impossible to take in. Now I don’t even give it a second thought. I imagine the newbies in the five people class were pretty shocked to see such a sight.
With Kundalini yoga I also realized I was yoga (yoga means union or in union with the universe) as a child, it is the growing pains that pushed me away from my true self. This realization came as I was spinning in a circle at the yoga studio, during one of the exercises for the endocrine system restoration. This set of exercises helps restore our youth.
It is said that Kundalini is one of the most powerful yoga types and therefor the most dangerous. Kundalini energy comes from our beginning, the sex organs. Once it rises, some say karmic past can be erased. The person changes on a cellular level, with the ability to shed old age, look and feel younger.
Priories often change and even paths.
I believe I have found my path, just need a little help with the youth part and a little push toward action.
The more I practice the more I feel the change taking place. It’s not obvious, I’m still fighting vices, but now I observe them as something that is passing, on its way out. The cravings, the feeling of a lack of control is going away, so I’m all the way in.
The longer I exist in the here and now, the more thankful I am for this life, for my being, for the existence and body that I already have, as well as all the vast possibilities out there.
The ego is what stands between our ability for consciousness as human beings and our animal selves. As we develop and self-actualize we are able to become settled in patience, belief, and love. All negative emotions are a result of our ego becoming sensitive. Internal programming that we have not yet been able to deconstruct and re-create into something beautiful makes us believe that we are incompetent, ugly, selfish, stupid or whatever insult we can think of.
Truly we are all goddesses and gods and I shall remember every day to act like one.
Kindness. Patience. Love.
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By:
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𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮,
𝓐𝓙☙
